Iranian Journal of Immunology

Decreased Level of IL-37 Correlates Negatively with Inflammatory Cytokines in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Neuro-Behcet’s Disease

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Imene Ben Dhifallah 1
Afshin Borhani-Haghighi 2
Agnes Hamzaoui 3, 4
Kamel Hamzaoui 3, 4

1 Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

2 Clinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Unit Research 12SP15 "Homeostasis and Molecular Dysfunction in the lung" Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Pavillon B, Ariana, Tunis, Tunisia

4 El Manar Tunis University, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Department of Immunology and Basic Sciences, Tunis, Tunisia

https://doi.org/10.22034/iji.2019.80281
Abstract
Background: Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease with a chronic, relapsing-remitting course of unknown etiology. Neuro-Behcet’s disease (NBD) induce serious CNS complications and are known to be the main cause of long-term morbidity and mortality. IL‐37 is a natural suppressor of innate inflammation which its role in NBD has not been fully understood. Objective: To determine the expression of IL-37 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and its relationship with other inflammatory cytokines. Methods: Level of IL-37, IL-6, IL-17, IL-21, TSLP and TGF-β were measured in CSF of 22 patients with NBD and 12 non-inflammatory neurological disease (NIND) and 10 headache attributed to Behçet's disease (HaBD) by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In addition, IL-37 mRNA relative expression was detected by quantitative reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR). Results: CSF level and mRNA expression of IL‐37 were elevated in NBD patients compared to those in NIND and HaBD patients. Levels of IL-6, IL-17, IL-21 and TSLP were found to be increased in NBD patients and were inversely associated with IL-37 level. Moreover, TGF-β level in CSF of NBD patients was positively correlated with IL-37 levels. IL-37 increased significantly after treatment and in remission group, but TGF-β was only increased in treatment group. Conclusion: IL‐37 expression increased in NBD patients, and correlated with disease activity. Our data conclude that IL-37 could be a disease marker in NBD, however it requires further studies.

Keywords

Interlukine-37
Inflammatory Cytokines
Neuro-Behçet’s Disease
Iranian Journal of Immunology
Volume 16, Issue 4
Autumn 2019
Pages 299-310

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